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Subject: [BPR] - Bishop urges couples to untie knot in church
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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:35:14 -0500

November 3, 2000

Bishop urges couples to untie knot in church

Berlin - A bishop in the north German city of Hanover suggested on Friday
that Churches introduce a special religious end-of-marriage ceremony to help
people deal with the pain of divorce.

"A lot of people have problems of conscience after divorce. A separation
ceremony would help them and their children cope with it," Margot
Kaessmann, a bishop for the German Protestant church, told the daily
newspaper Bild.

Kaessmann suggested the whole family would meet in church to renounce
the marriage vows.

"I think marriage is a wonderful thing. But I think it's important that we can
also tell God when we've failed," she told the newspaper. - Reuters

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Subject: [BPR] - Transylvanian priest issues graveyard threat
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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:37:11 -0500

   Transylvanian priest issues
   graveyard threat

   A Transylvanian priest has threatened to dig up the
   bodies of Protestants in his churchyard - if people don't
   stop complaining about his Orthodox-only rule for new
   burials.

   Father Ioan Lirca Moldovan, a parish priest in the
   Transylvania region of Romania has told residents only
   Orthodox people can be buried in the village cemetery
   from now on, even though people of all faiths had lived
   and been buried there for over a hundred years.

   After refusing to bury one Protestant, he has now said
   he will have the rest of the bodies removed if people
   keep complaining.

   The priest added: "The cemetery is the final resting
   place and I do not believe there will be much rest if we
   go mixing the faiths. It's not done anywhere else."

Last updated: 19:35 Friday 3rd November 2000.

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Subject: [BPR] - Palestinians: Arafat has lost control
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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:40:14 -0500

Palestinians: Arafat has lost control

Special to World Tribune.com
MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE
Friday, November 3, 2000

RAMALLAH — Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, fearing an
opposition backlash, has effectively lost control in stopping violence
against Israel.

PA sources said Arafat has been alarmed by the continuation of bloody
clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian demonstrators. They said
he has lost control over the unrest, which has now targeted both
Egyptian and Jordanian interests.

For the last week, the sources said, Arafat has been trying to regain
control over the violence. They said this includes an announcement that
bans weapons at anti-Israeli demonstrations.

"Arafat will not end the violence against Israel as long as Palestinians
are being killed," a PA source said. "The problem is that Arafat's
opposition both within Fatah and the Islamic movements are doing their
best to continue clashes to ensure more casualties."

The sources said the message has been relayed to both Israel and the
United States. They said Arafat needs a week until he can restrain
demonstrators.

But PA sources said Fatah dissidents are coordinating with Hamas and
Islamic Jihad to maintain the violence as part of a power struggle
against Arafat. The sources said they regard Arafat as an aging and
feeble leader who must be replaced with the establishment of a
Palestinian state.

The result is that Fatah has vowed to continue violence even as Arafat
pledged to Regional Cooperation Minister Shimon Peres that he would
order his security forces to stop Palestinians from clashing with
Israel. "The Palestinian people, in the homeland and abroad, are
required to continue the uprising until the occupation ends,"
Palestinian legislator and Fatah leader Khaddoura Fares said. "What
matters is whether this occupation will remain or withdraw. This is
Fatah's decision. This is the decision of all the forces."

One PA source said the current power struggle is reminiscent of Jordan
in 1970, when Palestinians opposed to Arafat violated agreement after
agreement with King Hussein. Finally, Hussein expelled an estimated
20,000 Fatah fighters from his kingdom.

Friday, November 3, 2000

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Subject: [BPR] - Venezuela Hopes to Offer Vacations on the Moon
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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:45:56 -0500

Friday November 3 7:48 AM ET

Venezuela Hopes to Offer Vacations on the Moon

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's president hopes a new space project in
the South American country will offer tourists vacations on the moon.

Former paratrooper Hugo Chavez said he met a group of U.S. businessmen
last week who proposed building a space shuttle and launch pad in the huge
southern plains bordering the river Orinoco.

``Within a hundred years, and maybe less, there will be people taking
holidays on the moon,'' Chavez told reporters.

A failed military coup leader who swept to electoral victory in 1998, Chavez
has set about lifting his poverty-stricken countrymen out of the ranks of the
Third World with an idiosyncratic ``democratic revolution.''

One of his pet projects is to develop the deserted southern plains with
billions of dollars of state oil earnings.

``If it is viable, this construction plan for space vehicles could coincide with
plans for a city and a technology center,'' Chavez said.

Little-known Texas-based Lone Star Space proposed building the shuttle and
launch pad in association with the Venezuelan government, according to
local media.

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Subject: [BPR] - Saddam film-maker gets death threat
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 10:49:04 -0500

              Friday, 3 November, 2000, 11:57 GMT
              Saddam film-maker gets
              death threat

              Saddam Hussein: Filmed fishing with hand grenades
              A man who made a satirical film about Iraqi
              leader Saddam Hussein has been given a death
              threat in an overnight attack on his Hollywood
              home.

              French freelance journalist Joel Soler, 32, woke
              on Thursday to find his house splattered with
              red paint, his dustbins on fire and a death
              threat pinned to his mailbox.

              He said the unsigned note read: "In the name
              of God the merciful, the compassionate, burn
              the Satanic movie or you will be dead."

              The attack on Soler's house followed a
              week-long run of the film, Uncle Saddam, at a
              nearby cinema.

              Soler made a documentary about Hussein from
              footage he smuggled out of Iraq last year
              taken on the pretext of filming the country's
              suffering under UN sanctions.

'Courageous'

              He was given rare access to Saddam, and the
              film includes shots of him fishing at a country
              lake by throwing hand grenades in the water,
              lecturing aides on how often they should
              shower and showing his vast collection of
              hats.

              The film has been shown at the Vancouver Film
              Festival and the UN Film Festival. It has been
              praised as "courageous" by David Scheffer, the
              US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues.

              Soler said he was so disturbed by the
              overnight incident he was considering hiring a
              bodyguard or going into hiding.

"I freaked out. It is horrible. How can you not
take (the attack) seriously?" he said.

              "I don't know who did it. I don't know whether
              it was the work of one angry guy or whether it
              is something more organised."

Local police investigated the incident but had
no comment to make.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1005000/1005008.stm

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Subject: [BPR] - Documents: Text of Palestinian and Israeli stat
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:41:51 -0500

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To: "IMRA Newsletter" <imra-l@lyris.vcix.com>
Subject: [imra-l] Documents: Text of Palestinian and Israeli statements on violence
Date sent: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:30:23 +0200
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Documents: Text of Palestinian and Israeli statements on violence

[IMRA note: UN Resolutions 242 and 338 have been mentioned in Oslo
documents.
UN Resolution 194 was not and calls for the internationalization of the
entire Jerusalem area and for the return of the 1948 refugees to within
Israel if they are willing to live in peace.]

November 2, 2000

#1 Text of Palestinian statement on violence

GAZA CITY (CNN) November 2, 2000

-- The following is the text of a statement released Thursday by the
Palestinian leadership:

"Understanding was reached last night between the Palestinian Authority and
the Israeli Government which states that both sides will do their best to
implement the Sharm el-Sheikh understanding as stated by President Clinton
and President Mubarak.

"The Palestinian leadership which has always proved its concern to
implement mutual commitments is monitoring closely the degree which the
Israeli side is implementing its commitment of withdrawing the occupation
forces and military detachments from all the areas, cities and residential
centers which were occupied or raided after September 28, and stopping its
attacks against our unarmed people and terminating all forms of siege.

"The Palestinian Leadership deems it an essential element that the Israeli
Government deter and stop the settlers from perpetrating this continuous
crimes against our people. This is an essential element to stop the
attacks, violence and terrorism that our people are still subject to.

"The Palestinian Leadership which has always been concerned for maintaining
the peaceful and popular Intifadah and has practiced self-constraint
through the past phase of continuous attacks and violations, calls on the
struggling masses and its national forces to observe their united position
and to continue their popular expression, adhering to the peaceful means in
all their activities and forms of national action. This is an affirmation
of our people's insistence to achieve their legitimate national rights and
the implementation of international legitimacy resolutions as well as
reaching a just and comprehensive peace.

"Realizing the Peace of the Brave that provides security, peace and justice
to all the people of the region, entails affirming practical commitments to
the international legitimacy resolutions which are the terms of reference
of the peace process which says U.N. resolutions 242, 338 and 194 will be
implemented and the full Israeli withdrawal to the 4th of June 1967 lines
and a guarantee of Palestinians right to return and the establishment of an
independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital."

#2 Text of Israeli statement on violence

JERUSALEM (CNN) November 2, 2000

-- The following is a text released by the Israeli
government which Israeli officials said both Israeli and Palestinian
officials had agreed to:

"Joint Statement on the Cessation of Violence"

"The Israeli and Palestinian sides have agreed tonight to issue a joint
call for the cessation of violence.

"I hereby call all forces and parties to refrain from violence, incitement
and the use of force in order to restore peace and calm.

"We undertook to work together to implement the Sharm El-Sheikh
understandings as presented by President Clinton at the closing of the
Sharm El-Sheikh Summit last month. These understandings shall be
implemented in the manner concluded between Chairman Arafat and Prime
Minister Barak on the night of November 1, 2000.

"The sides share the hope for a future of stability, prosperity and peace,
when two separate political entities will co-exist side by side in good
neighborly relations. The sides undertake to exert every effort to realize
this dream of Peace of the Brave in dignity, fairness and mutual respect."

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Subject: [BPR] - Background: Israeli reservists eager to serve in Yesha territory
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:58:02 -0500

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Subject: [imra-l] Background: Israeli reservists eager to serve in Yesha territory
Date sent: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:56:38 +0200
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BACKGROUND: ISRAELI RESERVISTS EAGER TO SERVE IN YESHA TERRITORY

The following is excerpted from a report by Amir Rapaport in Israel's
leading daily, Yediot Ahronot (18 Oct.):

The rioting in the territories has caused a new phenomenon: eagerness
for reserve duty. Israeli army reservists are no longer seeking out
exemptions because of problems at home or back trouble, and units are
flooded with hundreds of volunteering requests.

A few days after rioting began in the territories, Lt. Col. (Res.) Boaz
Zafrir telephoned Efraim Brigade Commander Eitan Avraham: "Call up my
regiment for reserve duty", requested Zafrir. "You don't need to issue
emergency call-up orders. For starters, I'll arrange for 50 volunteers
within a few hours."

Zafrir's request was not unusual: Commanders in the territories relate
that this is a phenomenon, and that they have been deluged with hundreds
of requests from IDF reservists who seek to volunteer for service due to
the situation.

Col. Gal Hirsch, Commander of the Binyamin Brigade operating in the
Ramallah area: "In our brigade, dozens of men wanted to volunteer. One
of our reservists, who lives in South Africa, saw what was happening on
TV, dropped everything, and turned up here."

Major (Res.) Tal Vardi, a bank employee from Raanana: "I can't remember
any mobilization that ever proceeded so smoothly. Usually, a large
number of soldiers line up for personal interviews at the beginning of
each stint of duty. There are many requests for exemptions for various
reasons, like a new job, problems at home, or "back pain", which is very
popular. This time, the number of requests for exemptions was
negligible, which actually created a certain problem.... No-one wanted
to go home."

Pony-tailed Staff-Seargent Lior Stein, 30, from Givatayim: "This time
there are no (political) arguments (between reservists). Everyone
understands that this is obligatory combat forced on us by the other
side. That's why there are no political arguments between us now."

Translation courtesy of CITIES OF ISRAEL, a Pro-Israel Grass-Roots
Movement Working Toward Peace-For-Peace Since 1993.

Susie Dym, CITIES OF ISRAEL spokesperson
972 8 9471273
______________________________________________________________
C I T I E S O F I S R A E L ("Mattot Arim" in Hebrew):
email: sdym@netvision.net.il Northern Israel: POB 7899, Haifa

Central Israel: POB 1588 Rehovot Southern Israel: POB 403, Meitar

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Subject: [BPR] - NOV/4/00- 22:30-IST
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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 18:00:36 -0500

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From: BreakingNews-Israel <YeshBB@netvision.net.il>
Subject: NOV/4/00- 22:30-IST

BreakingNews-Israel

Saturday News Brief (Recap) – 22:30-IST (Nov.4)
(IsraelWire-11/4) Following is a recap of Saturday�s (Nov.4) events in
Judea, Samaria & Gaza until 19:30-IST.

JUDEA & SAMARIA ---
1) BAKA AL-GHARBIYE – Two Israelis were injured in stone-throwing
attacks on Saturday. In one case, the Israeli motorist was pulled from
his vehicle in an attempted lynching attack. His car was stolen while he
was beaten and attacked with stones. The victim was transported to
Hillel Jaffe Hospital in Hadera where he is reported in
light-to-moderate condition.

2) AYOSH JUNCTION – IDF troops were fired upon. No injuries.
a. A border policeman was lightly injured in a stone-throwing attack. He
was transported to a hospital for treatment.

3) MOUNT EVAL – A military vehicle coming down from an outpost on Mount
Eval was attacked with a grenade on Saturday night. Following the
grenade, the armor-plated vehicle was hit with machinegun fire. No
injuries.

4) PEIROT JUNCTION – IDF troops were fired upon at Peirot Junction, near
Kalkilya, in Samaria. No injuries.

5) STONE-THROWING AND FIREBOMBS
a. Hebron - Attacks were recorded in Hebron and the surrounding area. A
soldier fired a single shot at a rioter hurling a firebomb, striking him
in the leg. b. Peirot Outpost – south of Kalkilya. c. Ayosh Junction.
d. Meshulash Hagdud (near Tul Karem). e. Factory area west of Tul Karem.
In that attack, a factory sustained light fire damage from a firebomb
that ignited. f. 250 Junction (Jenin District). g. Rachel�s Tomb
(Bethlehem District). h. Baka al-Gharbiye. i. Hot houses near Jenin.
j. Silat el-Dahar. In most of the cases (a-j), IDF forces used riot
dispersing equipment.

GAZA ---
6) Shots fired on Saturday night near the border, inside “Israel
proper”. a. Shots were fired at a patrol on Saturday night near the
Karnei crossing. (No injuries in the shooting attacks). IDF forces
returned fire.

7) STONE-THROWING AND FIREBOMBS
a. Neve Dekalim - Beginning in the early morning hours of Saturday, IDF
forces were attacked with bottles, rocks and firebombs. b. Rafiah -
Beginning in the early morning hours of Saturday, IDF forces were
attacked with bottles, rocks and firebombs. c. Central Gaza - Beginning
in the early morning hours of Saturday, IDF forces were attacked with
bottles, rocks and firebombs. a. Erez - Beginning in the early morning
hours of Saturday, IDF forces were attacked with bottles, rocks and
firebombs.

7) During the afternoon, there were attempts to cut the fence and enter
into “Israel proper” a few kilometers south of the Karnei Crossing.
Soldiers in the area prevented the infiltration.

8) EREZ CHECKPOINT – Arson attack against a factory. Damage unknown.

9) MORAG – During the evening, an explosive device was detonated against
a convoy led by IDF vehicles. No injuries.

++++

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Courtesy of IsraelWire News Service – http://www.israelwire.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Scientists Think They've Glimpsed the 'God Particle'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 18:15:24 -0500

Scientists Think They've Glimpsed the 'God Particle'
Matter: If a Higgs boson has left tracks in an accelerator, it opens a
'whole new world' for physicists.

By K.C. COLE, Times Science Writer

GENEVA--For more than 20 years, scientists around the world have been
searching for an invisible particle that determines the basic properties of
matter. The particle, called a Higgs boson, is thought to be a vibrating chunk
of the unseen vacuum that underlies everything in the universe.

Today, physicists at the European laboratory CERN are set to announce
what they believe is the first glimpse of the Higgs boson.

The evidence is by no means conclusive. However, the discovery is
considered critical to physics--not only concluding one chapter but also
opening the door to another completely undiscovered realm.

"The Higgs is not just a particle,' said CERN theorist John
March-Russell. "It means there's this whole new world out there."

Once physicists understand this pervasive, unseen influence, they will be
able to answer a question so fundamental that ancient thinkers probably
never
even dared to ask it: "Why does matter have mass?"

Said Princeton experimentalist Chris Tully: "I think it will eventually be
hailed as one of the greatest achievements you can make in science."

The vacuum of physics gives structure to everything else. Like the
strings of an unseen puppeteer, it holds all matter under its influence.

The Higgs field is a fundamental part of this nothingness. It's like
water to a fish, an essential ingredient of the universe. And the Higgs
boson has enormous consequences: Without this hidden field, all particles
would travel at the speed of light. Atoms could not exist.

Possible traces of the long-sought particle were detected during
experiments in the 17-mile-around Large Electron Positron collider, or LEP,
by crashing atomic particles together at high speeds.

Tracks suggesting the possible presence of the so-far-unseen Higgs have
teased CERN physicists with a frustrating succession of appearances and
disappearances over the last month. However, evidence accumulated last
week finally convinced the experimenters to request an emergency resuscitation of
the aging accelerator. CERN officials had previously decided to tear down LEP
and start construction of a replacement.

"It's a very pleasant emergency," CERN director general Luciano Maiani,
who has been a confirmed skeptic, told The Times on Thursday. "Last week
changed everything."

The final decision on the fate of the collider will have to await a
vote by CERN's 20 member states, probably next week. However, for the time
being, it looks as if the hordes of workers waiting with "blowtorches and
axes," as one physicist put it, to dismantle the machine will have to go
home.

Skeptics Had a Good Case

Skeptics have been saying for weeks that the hints that surfaced at
CERN last month were only wishful thinking--a desperate attempt to claim a
prize that almost surely would have gone to the rival Fermilab outside
Chicago if CERN's accelerator had shut down.

The skeptics had a good case: Of the four cathedral-sized electronic
"eyes" that watch for the Higgs, only one initially saw telltale tracks of
the particle. A few weeks later, another detector saw something, only to
have the evidence evaporate under later scrutiny.

"Maybe they persuaded themselves that, in spite of the warts, these
[tracks] are OK," Chris Quigg of Fermilab said at the time. "But my judgment
is, they're going to have a pretty hard time."

In a dizzying series of events since mid-October, however, two other
detectors at LEP have spied what scientists believe are definite Higgs
tracks.

"Among physicists, we believe we have them. But we don't believe we
have enough of them" to claim a discovery, said Jason Nielsen, a graduate
student from the University of Wisconsin.

So, after a week of sleepless nights and tense hallway conversations,
Maiani has decided to ask for a reprieve for the collider.

It won't come cheaply. In addition to the $70 million it will cost to
pay contractors who were standing by to destroy LEP and build the next
machine, the change of plans will take a big toll in careers disrupted and
personal plans.

Normally, the physicists would not have gone public with their findings
until physics conferences next spring, said a spokesman for the experiment,
physicist Tiziano Camporesi. "But by next spring, the detector would be
gone."

Why all the fuss? If the Higgs had different properties, our universe
would be an entirely different kind of place.

Bosons are one type among the almost unimaginably small subatomic
particles that, according to theoretical physics, are the ultimate building
blocks of the universe. The Higgs boson, often described as a kind of cosmic
molasses, changes the properties of particles that travel through it. It imparts
a kind of sluggishness--or mass. Until recently, mass was considered so
basic a property of matter that scientists didn't even think to ask where it came from.
"It was God-given," Maiani said.

"The fact that human beings can frame the question--much less find the
answer--is amazing," Tully said.

How can the physicists see the vacuum? The same way a brick "sees"
the Earth when it falls to the floor, or a magnet "sees" metal. The unseen
influence affects the way things move. In fact, the very observation that things have
mass confirms that the Higgs exists, physicists say.

To prove their theories, however, they need to set the vacuum vibrating
with enough energy to send a chunk of it, in effect, "free." Only that way can
they study its properties.

The CERN machine accomplishes that by making two beams of particles
collide head-on at enormous energies. Electrons circling in one direction
meet their anti-matter counterparts, called positrons, circling in the
opposite direction at four intersections along an accelerator ring.

Continuously accelerated as they fly through the ring, the particles
cannot exceed the speed of light. Instead, their energy translates directly into
mass (according to Einstein's E=mc formula). By the time they collide, they
have been fattened to 200,000 times their normal "weight."

All that energy goes into mutual annihilation--a burst of pure energy. And
out of that ball of energy come new particles. If the physicists at CERN are
right, their collisions have produced a so-called Z particle, massive enough to
set the vacuum twanging for a tiny fraction of a second and produce the Higgs
boson. The exact "pitch" of that twang is the natural frequency of the vacuum.
Frequency, in the world of particles, translates directly into energy, which in
turn translates into mass.

Things would be simple if either the Z or the Higgs could be seen
directly. Alas, both dissolve into other particles before traveling even a
few inches at nearly the speed of light.

Therefore, the details of the collision must be inferred from the
tracks left in the four detectors placed at the intersections of the
particle beams. As pieces fly out from the site of the collision, every
stray bit is identified, tracked and counted.

Buried in pits hundreds of yards beneath the rolling French and Swiss
countryside, the enormous, tinkertoy-like detectors operate in ways
surprisingly similar to human eyes: After collecting detailed information on
properties of particles that pass through--speed, electric charge, mass and so
forth--they make what amount to intelligent "guesses" on what they "see."

At the end, what they have is a carefully measured probability of being
right. The process is very much like staring at a strange flickering light in
the distance, explained CERN physicist John Ellis. The longer you look, the
more certain you can be that you're looking at a planet instead of an airplane.

Tully, who is one of three independent physicists in charge of
calculating those probabilities, says the current odds that the CERN Higgs
is not real stand at about 3 in 1,000. That may sound good, he said, but to
claim a "discovery," CERN would need the probability that the signals were
the result of random chance to fall to 5 in 10 million.

That will require staring at the flickering signals for another year.
And that, in turn, means running the 11-year-old accelerator well beyond its
current capacity. The operations people say they can do that, but it will take
its toll: As the accelerator ages, insulation becomes brittle, cooling coils
crack, sensitive electronics get destroyed.

And with the Higgs so nearly in sight, it seems a shame to give
up--especially with Fermilab potentially so close behind, CERN officials
say.

University of Wisconsin physicist Sau Lan Wu, who has been searching
for the Higgs for 20 years and is part of one of the CERN search teams,
says: "It's within our reach. We should have the chance."

Looking for 'the God Particle'

LEP has been looking for the Higgs since the collider was commissioned
in 1989, but the search goes back way before that. The Higgs is considered so
important that Nobel laureate Leon Lederman has called it "the god particle."
It is the last piece in the so-called "standard model" of particle physics, but
paradoxically, "it proves that the standard model is wrong," said Ellis.

For one thing, if the Higgs is where the CERN results suggest it is, it
means at the very least that there must be at least one other Higgs, and that
they mix together somewhat like oil and water, said CERN's March-Russell.
Ellis even made the admittedly "crazy" suggestion in a talk Wednesday at CERN
that a lighter Higgs particle may have already been missed by LEP.

But for theorists, the real question is: What lies beyond?

The point, March-Russell said, is to study the structure of this unseen
stage on which the universe lives. And that will probably have to await the
new accelerator that replaces LEP. Called the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, it
has already been delayed many times for other reasons.

Even if the Higgs really has been discovered, March-Russell--echoing
many of his colleagues--stressed that LEP "can only see the shadows. It's
only when you go further that you see the structure underneath. I think
we're going to start seeing incredible things."

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/lat_higgs001103.htm

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - Egyptian Police respond to stones with guns
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:18:05 -0500

Egyptian Police respond to stones with guns - three Egyptians killed,
dozens injured as Egyptians vote for Parliament

November 04, 2000 www.albawaba.co

Three people were shot dead and dozens injured Saturday as a new round in
Egypt's legislative elections opened with clashes between police and
Islamists, witnesses said.

via: IMRA Newsletter" <imra-l@lyris.vcix.com>

Some of the most severe clashes took place near the northern city of
Damietta, where police tried to block villagers supporting Islamist
candidates from heading to the polls, witnesses said.

Angry residents started throwing stones at the police, who responded with
guns and teargas.

Hani Noaman al-Sayyuhi, 16, died after being shot by police, hospital
sources said.

In the suburbs of Tanta, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Cairo, two
supporters of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) were also killed by
police bullets.

The two victims, identified as Mohamed Abu Abbeya and Mohamed Hellah,
were by a voting booth when violent clashes broke out between police and
Islamists.

At least several dozen others were injured in clashes throughout the Delta
region, including 22 people hit by bullets, and were hospitalized in Tanta.

A fourth person was reported dead after suffering a heart attack during the
clashes.

Islamists alleged that police were trying to stop voters from casting
ballots for them and had arrested several activists from the Muslim
Brotherhood, a banned but largely tolerated Islamist movement.

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